A group of Mozilla Firefox fans from Oregon State University (OSU) are going to extremes to promote their favourite Internet browser which has succeeded in grabbing market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer over the past couple of years. As you can see, they’ve created a Firefox Crop Circle, in a field of oats. It’s 220 feet in diameter and looks best from the sky. It took 12 OSU students around 24 hours to complete it.
This is a site featuring the logos of new-age Internet companies, referred to as Web 2.0 businesses.
Brand/product advertised: Pirelli Tyres website
Advert title: Mouse
Agency name: Advertising International, Oman
Art director: Jairam
Copywriter: Vikramaditya Maity
Bernbach is the ‘B’ in DDB Needham, one of the world’s top advertising agency networks. If Bernach did indeed ‘think small’, it gives hope to all of us who even ‘think smaller’. This is part of a campaign for Epson.
Thierry Henry has decided to switch sponsors from Nike to Reebok, starting in August this year, with a deal worth over 9 million British pounds.
Henry was one of Nike’s most prestigious players, but is now set to become the new face of Reebok’s “I am what I am” promotional campaign.
Previously, Henry was the driving force behind Nike’s “Stand Up, Speak Up” anti-racism campaign.
Lexus is spreading its message about safety with new interactive ads consumers can manipulate.
The campaign promotes the RX 350 luxury SUV in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco storefronts with full-motion ads that engage with consumers as they pass by.
The ads lets people watch a car collision that appears to crash through the window on a video display. Consumers can "undo" them by interacting with the ads using body movement.
The campaign, which launched last week, promotes Lexus' latest message about its vehicles and safety: "The safest accidents are the ones that never happen." It runs through April 15.
Lexus promotes safety with an interactive ad passers-by can manipulate [ read full story at http://promomagazine.com/interactivemarketing/news/lexus_launches_interactive_ad_032307/]
For the last couple of months, Warner Bros. has maintained a MySpace page for the film, a common tactic for the movies in the last year or so. But in this case the promotion was exposed to the entire MySpace user population. That's because the movie sponsored a feature upgrade on the site that alerted users that they could now store 300 photos on their profile thanks to the movie 300. That message has been shown to all users uploading photos since January 2.
1. Nike, the leading designer sports goods and accessories major, has launched Ronaldinho signature collection, football boot which would be available across the country. The price range would be between Rs 3,990 and Rs 8,900 for the collection. Name this newly launched product?
2. Akshay Kumar will be featured in a TV commercial performing the extreme sport of Yamakasi, which means "strong body, strong spirit, strong person" popularised by the French. Yamakasi involves facing urban obstacles as efficiently as possible, which gained prominence in the latest Bond movie Casino Royale. Name the brand for which this Ad is being made?
3. Who is setting up six new radio stations in the North East Region as per the announcement of Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari in Lok Sabha earlier this week. These radio stations will be at Agartala, Aizwal, Gangtok, Imphal, Itanagar and Kohima.
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4. Who said “It should not be the business of government to be in business”. Tory legend was the only British Prime minister in last 170 years to won 3 terms of Prime Ministership?
5. Some might call him a robber. But the truth is, he is a ‘Modern-day Robin Hood’ i.e. he rob the rich to invest in the poor countries of Eastern Europe and
6. This
Merton Miller (of Modigliani and Miller fame)
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Identify the Company's whose ad is just shown
Asian Paints
1. According to popular belief, long, long ago, there was a sage in
3. Who said and when "Everybody rapes the system but this man wanted to make it his mistress".
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4. Which famous brand celebrated its 48th Birthday on 9th March and decided to involve its target customer by allowing them to SMS on 6767222?
5. Cadbury is fighting a court case against Parle regarding the claim of exclusivity to a completely descriptive term. Which famous brand are we talking about?
6.. This company will offer its trousers, cargos and t-shirts in
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8. Significance of this picture..
9. This book is about which so called Indian MNC
1. Chyawanprash
2. Central Bank of India
3. Ramanth Goenka about Dhirubhai Ambani
4. Mattel's Barbie
5. Fruity/ Frooty
6. Puma Sports
7. HMT Logo
8. Special Haj notes which wee issued by RBI for the use in Saudi Arabia
9. Ranbaxy
GooGleQdoM
1. Carl Page Jr. , brother of Google founder Larry Page , co-founded which technology firm , that was later purchased by yahoo? [Hint: The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management functionality.]
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2. Krishana Bharat , the man behind Google News, developed this as the initial version of the formula to be used to prioritize Google news search . It was named as___ [ Hint : cousin of PageRank formula]
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3. The “Burning Man” Festival/ Social gathering had become a rite of late summer throughout the Bay Area, esp in
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BizHisQdoM
1. The name "___" was coined for its Spanish definition of "shady resting place." Through its early years until the early 1970s, a typical ___ was built of colonial Williamsburg-style architecture to set their hotels apart from the standardized architectural designs used by competitors such as Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson's. Which hotel chain are we talking about?
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2. It is the oldest existing Insurance Company in
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3. In May of 1946 the two men established a partnership with $500 in borrowed capital, and registered their company as the
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WCQdoM
1. Who is the global official internet partner for the World Cup? They have also created a website called as: www.cricketworldcup.com.
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2. Which former Indian cricketer has launched www.krishcricket.com, a portal that offers various cricket-related entertainment options including online and mobile phone games. The Web site will track and keep a record of each user's scores, display a list of the leading performers, as well as offer `promotional points' which can be redeemed against the membership fees, or for purchase of CDs.
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3. In what is being termed as the biggest online advertising deal negotiated in India in recent times, who has committed somewhere in the region of $ 1 million (Rs 450 million) for the privilege of owning "most of the real estate" on the World Cup dedicated website cricketworldcup.com.
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1. It was hyped as
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2. Café Coffee Day, India's largest retail coffee shop chain, is planning to open 19 more outlets across which country in the next 12 months after the success of its first venture in that country?
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3. Which business group is all set to start its retail play through a take-over of Andhra Pradesh-based Trinethra Super Retail Ltd, which operates its stores under the brand name Trinethra in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and under `Fabmall' in Karnataka?
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DesiBizQdoM
1. Vahid Berenjian, a swede of Persian descant, chose Banglore in 1994 to spread his knowledge of pizzas, he along with Akbar Khawaja , who pioneer bar into theme bar, started which Indian Pizza retail outlet?
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2. Its history dates back to 1930s when the ruler of then princely state of ____, Maharaja Khegarji III wanted to have a port in his kingdom . The port trust believes that, “Business goes where it is invited and stays where it is treated well”
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3. This beauty soap is available in four variants: Exotic Flower Petals, Fruit Extracts, Almond and Sandal. Also it has a common ingredient of Milk cream in all the variants.
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FilmiQdoM
1. Rajshri Media, the digital media arm of bollywood production and distribution house Rajshri Productions, has launched a broadband portal Rajshri.com for entertainment and premium video content. On this website company also premiering one of their home production online. The movie was available for download or lives streaming, thus it was the first time that an Indian movie is premiering online. Name the movie
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2. For a particular scene, advertisements was issued calling for 400,000 extras and distributed in pamphlets and by newspapers in
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3. This film was to be made both in Hindi and English versions. The English version was to be titled "Paint It Yellow". However, later the plan for the English version was dropped subsequently. Which famous movie are we talking about?
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AgriBizQdoM
1. The exact origin of this industry is not known, but in 1965 there were 3 major player: Spencer & Co. Madras, Shri Ambica ___ Co. Ltd Hyderbad and D Macropolo & Co Ltd. The main raw material used for this industry is an agriculture product. Name the industry?
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2. What was started in
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3.
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1. Which famous business jargon was first developed by Joseph Juran while studing quality problems at the General Motor car production plant. ? [Hint numbers]
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2. In modern Retail parley what does ELP means?
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3. As many as six adults are normally indulged in the whims of each child in
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2. This was the first passenger car from Telco (Now Tata motors), was launched in 1991 marking the transformation of a Truck manufacturer to a Passenger vehicle maker.
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3. This company’s first car was named as “Dixi”, the company’s original slogan was "Freude am Fahren," which translates to "Joy in Driving".
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